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I have selected these books because the vampire characters are portrayed differently from the mainstream ideas "vampires are evil", "vampires always kill people" or the vampires with "angst! angst! angst! Woe is me!" attitudes. The vampires in these books are main or secondary characters, and thus have depth, background and - usually - are even portrayed as the GOOD guys, or at least working for the greater good even if they're not the most ideal heros.
I created this list for those who think "vampires can only be evil" because these examples of fictional vampires who are NOT purely evil. Since these are fictional works, the vampiric characteristics they have don't have much - or anything - to do with reality, however their personality and their behavior towards others (in otherwords, their social interactions) show that being a vampire doesn't make a person evil, and it does not mean they can't have friends. Author's names that are links go to websites with appropriate info about the author and/or the books in question where possible, choosing the most informative site I can find.
Please note: All the books listed here are ones I HAVE ACTUALLY READ! I do not list books because an author has sent me information about it or begged me to have it listed. I have specific character criteria in use for this list, and it will not be bent for ANYTHING that does not fit. Period.
Elrod, P. N.
Vampire Files Series (20's/30's
"gumshoe" detective style)
Bloodlist
Lifeblood
Bloodcircle
Art in the Blood
Fire in the Blood
Blood on the Water
A Chill in the Blood
The Dark Sleep
Lady Crymsyn
Cold Streets
Song in the Dark (due ????)
Johnathon Barret Series
Red Death
Death and the Maiden
Death Masque
Dance of Death
Others
Quincey Morris, Vampire
Friedman, C. S.
Science Fantasy - Coldfire
Trilogy
#1 - Black Sun Rising
#2 - When True Night Falls
#3 - Crown of Shadows
Science Fiction
The Madness Season
Huff, Tanya
Henry Fitzroy series
Blood Price
Blood Trail
Blood Lines
Blood Pact
Blood Debt
Hamilton, Laurell
K.
Anita Blake series
Guilty Pleasures
The Laughing Corpse
Circus of the Damned
The Lunatic Cafe
Bloody Bones
The Killing Dance
Burnt Offerings
Blue Moon
Obsidian Butterfly
Narcissus in Chains
Cerulean Sins
Incubus Dreams
Killough, Lee
Garreth Mikaelian series
Blood Hunt
Bloodlinks
Blood
Walk (Blood Hunt / Bloodlinks combined)
Blood
Games
Lackey, Mercedes
Children of the Night
Lichtenberg, Jacqueline
Luren books
Those of My Blood
Dreamspy
Nassaw, Johnathon
The World on Blood
Shadows
Yarbro, Chelsea Quinn
St. Germain Books (Year story takes place, location if known)
Better in the Dark (938, Saxon Germany)
Blood Games (816, Rome)
Blood Roses (1345, France)
Come Twilight (620-1100's)
Communion Blood (1638-ish)
Darker Jewels (1582, Russian empire)
Feast in Exile, A (1300's Mongol china?)
Hotel Transylvania (1743, France)
Mansions of Darkness (1640's, Peru)
Midnight Harvest (1930's, Spain & America)
Night Blooming (796, Gaul)
Palace, The (1490, Renaissance Florcence)
Path of the Eclipse (1216, China)
Saint-Germain Chronicles, The (short stories)
Tempting Fate (1917, Germany/Russia?)
Writ in Blood (1910, Russia)
Olivia Books
Candle for D'Artagnan, A (1637, France)
Crusader's Torch (1188)
Flame in Byzantium, A (545)
Madelaine Books
In the Face of Death (1847-65, America)
Out of the House of Life (1825, Egypt)
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